Layout: Written in 46 long lines; ruled in lead; some prickings visible.

Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.

Decoration: Contains 46 large decorated initials throughout, in a variety of colors; decorated with complicated interlacings
of serrated branchwork with cone-like fruit; two of the initials have a small coat of arms in the center (f. 1r, 15v); headings
to the prologue and the various sections written in red, purple and green; capitals touched with yellow.

Binding: Modern half vellum.

Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1500 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Many stains and smudges. Slight wormhole damage, obliterating a few words of text on the first few folios. Edges starting
to fray and tear in a few places. Binding and cover in good condition.

This text, with contemporary foliation 1-33, is missing its final leaf and was once followed by a treatise on the cardinal
virtues based on Valerius Maximus and others, foliated 35-67, now the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Marston 43
(Eugenio Refini, University of Warwick).